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Man and Nature
General questions
Man, nature and the city
3.
b. List positive and negative things about man and nature.
Positive
NATURE
Negative
Positive
MAN
Negative
c. Sum up differences and similarities between man and nature.
Man and Nature
Similarities
Differences
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4. Which words and phrases do you associate with the city /city life and which do you
associate with the country/country life?
Feel free to add words of your own.
anonymity alienation attraction beauty boredom chaos compassion crime
despair destruction dirt entertainment excitement freedom harmony health
isolation noise opportunity racial tension relaxation restfulness oppression
pleasure pollution quiet romance rural security sense of belonging smells
tolerance tranquillity ugliness unemployment urban vandalism violence
City life
Country life
cruelty
homelessness
peace
stress
Vocabulary
Man, nature and the city
1. City life and country life. Word classes.
Noun
anonymity
alienation
despair
Adjective
Noun
suburb
Adjective
poor
independent
lonely
liberated
harmony
stress
1.
2.
3.
Superficial
Individual
attractive
in/tolerant
culture
Isolated
chaos
Tranquil
indifferent
Impersonal
Learning check: student A reads out the nouns to student B and without looking at the task, student
B has to come up with the corresponding adjectives.
Student B reads out the adjectives to student A and without looking at the task, student A has to
come up with the corresponding nouns.
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Man and the environment
2. Vocabulary for talking about climate change.
a. Fill in the missing words.
Noun
Noun: person
science
Adjective
ecological (issues, problems,
disasters, politics, protection,
movement)
Scientist
environmental (issues,
problems, disaster, politics,
protection, movement)
policy
political
climate
(climatic) most often climate is
used
Polluter
X
Glaciologist
glacial (erosion, landscape)
action
active
Learning check: student A reads out the noun: person to student B and without looking at the task,
student B has to come up with the corresponding nouns and adjectives.
Student B reads out the adjectives to student A and without looking at the task, student A has to
come up with the corresponding nouns.
b. Fill in the missing words and translate the English nouns into Danish.
Noun
Verb
Danish word for English
noun
emission (the emission of
carbon dioxide, industrial
emissions, emission controls)
reduction (in smth)
’increase (the carbon dioxide
(note stress)
’increases in the atmosphere, a
significant ’increase in…)
im’pact (on/upon) something
solution
flood/flooding
assume
protect
contributor (the worst
contributor to the problem …)
advocate (to be an advocate of
something)
opponent (to be an opponent of
something)
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Learning check: student A reads out the nouns to student B and without looking at the task, student
B has to come up with the corresponding verbs.
Student B reads out the Danish nouns to student A and without looking at the task, student A has to
come up with the corresponding verbs.
c. Fill in the missing words.
noun
adjective
significant
warming
verb
signify
warm
rise
protect
predict
rise (the rise in..)
protection
prediction (in/accurate predictions)
cause
causal (a causal relationship
between …. and …)
decisive
decide
Learning check: student A reads out the nouns to student B and without looking at the task, student
B has to come up with the corresponding adjectives and verbs.
Student B reads out the verbs to student A and without looking at the task, student A has to come up
with the corresponding adjectives and nouns.
Post-reading
LEARNING CHECK
Man, nature and the city
1. Vocabulary.
No study aids.
dansk
ro
bymiljø
landmiljø
kedsomhed
ensformighed
engelsk
t
dansk
upersonlig
fremmedgørelse
umenneskelig
fjendtlig
harmonisk
engelsk
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Man and the environment
3. Vocabulary.
No study aids.
a. Match a word on the left with a word on the right
global
endangered
population
severe
receding
alternative
carbon
ozone
layer
droughts
glaciers
dioxide
energy sources
explosion
warming
species
b. Translate into English
dansk
CO 2
Miljøaktivist
Forurene
være en fortaler for
udslip (f.eks. af CO2)
Økologi
engelsk
dansk
være en modstander af
en stigning
Årsag
oversvømmelse
Tørke
forudsigelse
engelsk
4. Written assignment and speech
Divide the class into three groups (a, b and c), who then subdivide into groups of three or four:
A: You are an environmentalist who has been asked to give a speech at a conservationist “Friends
of the Earth” meeting. Your topic is the ways in which man is interfering with and destroying the
environment. Write the opening of your speech and be prepared to give it in front of the class.
B: You are an environmentalist who has been asked to give a speech at a meeting for right-wing
Conservative businessmen who do not believe that climate change is a result of man’s interference
with nature. Write the opening of your speech on why climate change is a result of man’s
interference with nature and be prepared to give it in front of the class.
C: You are a writer of children’s books who has been asked to write a book for children about
climate change. Write the opening chapter of your book and be prepared to read it aloud to the
class.
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